[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 38 (Monday, March 30, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S2778]
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       EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF COMMISSION REPORT

  Mr. DeWINE. Mr. President, on behalf of the majority leader, I ask 
unanimous consent that the Intelligence Committee be discharged from 
further consideration of S. 1751, and, further, the Senate proceed to 
its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1751) to extend the deadline for submission of a 
     report by the Commission to Assess the Organization of the 
     Federal Government to combat the proliferation of weapons of 
     mass destruction.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the immediate 
consideration of the bill?
  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. DeWINE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be 
read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the 
table, and that any statements relating to the bill appear at this 
point in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 1751) was read the third time passed.
  The bill is as follows:

                                S. 1751

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF COMMISSION 
                   REPORT.

       Section 712(c)(1) of the Combatting Proliferation of 
     Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1996 (contained in Public 
     Law 104-293) is amended by striking ``enactment of this Act'' 
     and inserting ``first meeting of the Commission''.

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